First time posting here, and there is sort of a thread on this already but I couldn’t really grasp it (and it was from a while ago) so I wanted to make a new post.
I’m planning to move to Japan from Malaysia for studies but I also need to change phones because my current phone is seconds away from turning off on me and never turning back on again. I was thinking of getting an iPhone 13, but there was some concerns about whether it would be compatible with Japanese networks.
The ones I found online that I could purchase in Malaysia were model A2633 and unlocked/sim-free, and you can see the cellular bands here:
[Apple Malaysia’s site for the cellular bands on the iPhone 13](https://www.apple.com/my/iphone/cellular/#iphone-13-mini)
I read about it a lot online and some websites say that it should be fine as long as it is unlocked/sim-free and some that says they don’t allow it, and the thread mentions that it should be fine as long as you have the right cellular bands (B1, B3, B18, B19, B26, B28).
My other option is to have my sister residing in the United States buy one from there and send it back to Malaysia, since apparently the ones in the US will support it? Or so some website said.
Ideally the goal was to prevent the shutter sound, but it seems like they might activate it when you switch to Japan regardless, unless that one commenter on the other thread is wrong (though I have found a site selling iPhone 12s and below that had Japanese reviews saying the shutter sound wasn’t present, so)
I think it might be futile currently to ask if anyone has experienced this but if you have any idea about this stuff please let me know!